Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-05-14
the LOST OCEAN KING.
The Crew Of the Femnaered
Ship Arrive In Pert
Townsend.
kxpeFieHes 81 the Steam Launch Cos.
1es-Hsr Separation From tks psf
tsRson - MaFins Notes and
GensFal News Prom TIE
Pert u KafFy.
fRsn.Iay Con-. "a. Tsf.lIlo..e-y.1


ness ghieh wss reported q few days ago
Loss % Coos Bay, Oregon. Wills Ia tow
81 TIE eoasl Surveying steamer G. r.
PnttagBon, bat afterwards reported at
Astoria - sailed fer this poFt with ssven
uen 90 beard, arrived al 1910 D. ID.
Thursday With Captain O. II. sawyer
eBd erew Of the fouF-massed ship Oscar
King. A PosT-IMTKLEIoExcKs repre-
sentative
HTEzyrKwzD TIE cLPTAfz
Yesterday. Who Fslalsd the folIowfsg
etory.
-0n Wednesday, April IRA, us Isfs
hanaimo With q cargo Of $3.50 tons %
coal for San Pedro Ia t0w Of the British
tua Alsxandef. For the three following
days ne weather vas exceilent. Thea q
heavy southeast gale came on. The
vessel began 10 leak. As aooa as one
gale moderated smother cane on. n
vas 9 succession Of southeTly gales until
last Dunday. On May Let the vessel
beGan 10 leak. Tbs donkey engine vas
attached 10 the pumps, which worked
nicely until FRIDAY. Nay 9Th, when TIE
Romps broke and we had to work then
By hand. All tbis time she vas making
water. An nnusuAIiy heavy gale came
on Friday night and lasted until the
next day. The pamps we're started
again. Tbs seas wefe breaking over the
deok, sweeping Il clean from stem to
stern. The men laahed Themselves 10
NE pumps, but we're 90 exhausted that
70 was impossible for them 10 be of any
SERVES. AZ { O'Clock Sunday morning
A SAN was sT0HTKD
Eve miles 10 the westward. whieh bore
down Upon us and proHsFsd assistance.
We lowered q boat which vas I'm
mediately crushed by . large breaker
Tbe sail proved 70 be the sealing sahoon-
81 Angel Dollis. Captain TelIus. she
sent ~ q boat, and BY 8 o'oloek We we're
all taken aboard.
VI EuMBKHKp TWENTY-FIVE m ALL.
"Tbe vessel vas sounded previous 10
eur leaving her. and found 10 contain
Z feet Of water 10 heF bold. At that
time there vas Ere in the cooks gal
Icy. The veatsF moderated. fer few
hours, bat along 10 the aftsFnoon {Sun-
day.
TIE STORM CANE on A0ATS
Rrem the south. and The AnGel Dollie'a
course vas for Puget Sound. We ar
rived on Cape FiatteTy on Wednesday
night and fell 10 With tbe steam launch
Cosmos, Lieatenant Nibleck. United
States Navy, who kindly brought us 10
this port.
'On Friday morning. Nay 6sh, ship
was observed SEVENTY miles TO the west.
ward going south. She appeared 10 be
alFishs.
Il desire 10 express my sincere grail
tude 10 Captain rellus aud Lieutenant
hibleck for the the kindness extended
70 myself and crew.
HIsroAT OF TINS OCEAN KINa.
She vas full rugged -four masted ship
6uilt tn 1874 az ksnnebunk. Maine.
The following were her dimensions.
Length $50 feet. bsaadth AZ 3. depth 30. /.
net tonnage 25l0 She vas What vas
termed q three decker. She vas bnill
Of oak. yellow pine, With iron aud cop
per fasteniBRs. She vas metaled 10
DeosmbeF, 1892. She vas surveyed in
November. 1881. Her class expired la
October, 1896 The last survey was 10
san Francisoa In November, 1886. She
Is owned BY J. Henry Sears a Co., Of
Boston, and IL folly insured. She has
been on this coast only few years and
was one OF the largest American SHIPS
ever launched.
AAA N8AN A@NANh NNA AAAANbhNAMs
The Grew Of the Oosan King we're paid
Oh By the shipping commissioner and
left yesterday on The City Of Chester.
Captain Sawyer going also.
ARRIVAL OF THE COSMOS.
The steam launch Cosmos arrived
here this morning. after an eventfnl
cruise OF 100 miles as sea. bringing ia
the crew OF the wrecked four masted
ship Ocean King, which f0undeFed
about 10 miles oil Cape Gregory Coos
Ray) on Sunday. May slh. Ia 4 south
east gale. The Oosmos IL 62 feet long,
II feet beam. and Is commanded By En,
sign A. p. Nibleck, u. \. N. She car.
ries Grew Of two officers aud ave men,
The other officer beinR Epsien A. M.
Beeohef. With the crew Of the Ooean
King, there we're in all 81 souls on
board. The launch vas built Al the
California Navy Yard for Surveying In
Alaska In connection with the steamer
Patterson, and left san Francisco on
May 9Th, 10 tsw OF that vessel. On
Saturday, May 7th, In a heavy southeast
gale, the launch parted her tow line aud
the vessels got separated 10 the thick
weather. Tee Cosmos hAd been 10 "
ina
uHDHA DAkkED FIRES
And Immediately Rot unser vay 10 tFy
aud recover the towliue. bat the suRi.
neer ~ this critical moment got his arm
and hand iammed in the machinery and
the saonoa drifted helplessly In tbs
trough Of the sea. losing sight Of The
chip in = rain squall a fsw moments
after. 10 required the combined efforts
81 all handa 20 release the unfortunate
man from his horrible position. A sea
anoher vas rugged and gotten ever, bat
the cable parted almost Immediately.
she Was again laid 10 and rode out the
gale that
ToUSpEAKp THE ocEAS KtNa
Hoa afty miles distant from her. she
steamed 800 miles 30 the uaoath Of the
Columbia river. arriving there cut Of
fresh water and short 81 coal, besides
needing medical assistance for the 10.
iurea men. The prevalence OF unpFe-
cedented bad weather rendered the bar
unsafe for the passage Of any vessels.
The sseAmera Ancon, Oregon and Una.
tille we're inside, bar bound. Early on
Monday morning three tugs came out,
and the Cosmos made the venture 20
sea In. TIE ssa vas hrsAking fer thrce
miles
ACROSS ruE cuAsNEL
But the launch Sos through safely,
although her deck house waa nearly
swept away BY the breakers, snd her
boiler foamed badly from aSinc salt
water. Al Astoria the launch vas r.
pa,rrd and nsted NJ. Ensign Siblsck
meanwhile teleeraphing np ADD down
the eoAas 10 vAfioas points 10 notify she
Patterson Of the safe arrival tn port.
TIE COSMOS LKTr AsFoRlA
On wednesday. and "a Distraction Il
land fell 10 Sith a small hshtne Schooner
hsvine on beard the rescued crsw q zoe
Ocesn King fhe crsw Ssrs takea or
beard the launch ana hrcusht 10. AZ
NeAh RsY she stsppsd Ter repairs % her
enGiue. and arEive3 without farthfr
accident. she was erveted here With
aFeworks and ehes-s q welcome that 4
mast have rvpAid ths laaneh's eFsw for I
all they bad gene thfuneh. The steamer
PatteFsoa aad ths laaHes Cos,ros l@ave 1
for SlIks, Alaaks. 90 SaHday or Noe. 4
day.
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